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Quests give structure to a run in Huaxia: Warring States. Because the game is built around freedom rather than a single fixed storyline, quests act as one of several ways to earn money, recruit retainers, learn martial arts, and push your personal story forward. None of them are forced: you can ignore most quests and still found a clan, conquer counties, or wander as a lone fighter.
This page describes the kinds of quests in the current Early Access build and how the quest layer behaves. It does not walk through individual quests step by step, because specific quest content shifts between Early Access updates.
Quest Types
Quests fall into a handful of broad categories. The exact labels in the interface can change between updates, but the shapes below have been stable across the launch window.
Quest Type | Where It Comes From | What It Does |
|---|---|---|
Main quests | The opening questline and named story quests | Carry the central narrative. The introductory questline near your starting village teaches movement, dialogue, and the journal; later named story quests, such as the Ambition quest, advance your character's personal arc. |
Board quests | Quest boards in towns and cities | Short, repeatable jobs such as hunting, escorting, or clearing bandits. Board quests can be accepted from the panel and may carry a time limit; abandon or complete them before the timer runs out. |
Cloud quests | Roaming events in the provinces around Yu Province | Story events that surface notable historical figures, including encounters that can lead to recruiting them. Setting and lore notes that figures like Han Feizi and Xiang Liang are met through cloud quests in neighboring provinces. |
Recruitment quests | Recommendation chains and school study | Quest chains tied to recruiting senior retainers. Some require a school affiliation, a personality trait, or a recommendation from someone already in your service. |
Faction and clan quests | Service to a State or your own clan | Tasks tied to serving one of the seven major factions, or to administering your own clan once you have founded one. These intertwine with diplomacy and the conquest path. |
How Quests Are Tracked
Active quests appear in the journal. Board quests also show on the board panel until they are completed, abandoned, or expire. The journal is the place to check objectives, turn-in locations, and remaining time on timed jobs.
Open the journal to review active objectives and which settlement or person to return to.
Watch the timer on board quests. A timed job that expires is failed; some early builds had a bug where an expired board quest stayed stuck on the panel, which has since been fixed.
Save before turning in a quest that triggers a duel, a siege, or a major story branch. Manual saves exist for exactly this kind of risky step; see Getting Started.
Quests and the Three Pillars
Quests feed every play style rather than locking you into one. The same quest board can fund a wandering swordsman, a clan founder, or a quiet merchant.
Play Style | How Quests Fit |
|---|---|
Wandering warrior | Board quests and cloud quests are the main income and reputation source on the Wandering Warrior Path, since you have no clan economy to lean on. |
Clan founder | Recruitment and faction quests build the retainer roster and standing you need before declaring a clan and building a homestead. |
Quiet life | Even a settled, non-conquering character can take small board jobs for steady coin without ever engaging the war map. |
Early Access Notes
Quest content is one of the most active areas of Early Access development. Named story quests have been rewritten for clearer descriptions, individual quests have been temporarily disabled for repair and re-enabled in later patches, and quest-tracking bugs have been fixed over successive updates. Because of this churn, treat older guides and videos with caution: a quest shown in demo-era footage may behave differently in the current build. See Demo vs Early Access for how to tell which build a piece of content covers, and the Early Access Roadmap for what is planned next.
Recent updates have continued to refine the quest layer. The May 19 update streamlined accepting quests directly from the open world, removing some friction in the journal flow. The May 22 update fixed several quest-progression bugs (including stuck states tied to tutorial steps and to NPC placement near quest givers), and addressed lingering UI glitches in the journal panel.
Related Pages
Getting Started: the introductory questline and first-hour loop.
Retainers: recruitment quest chains and who you can bring into your service.
Factions: the powers whose service quests shape your standing.
Setting and Lore: the historical figures encountered through cloud quests.